Craft With International Crew Heads to Space Station

Marina Vasilevskaya, Belarus’ first woman cosmonaut, was aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that blasted off Saturday headed for the International Space Station, Moscow’s Roscosmos space agency said. “The Soyuz took off from Baikonur” in Kazakhstan at 1236 GMT, a Roscosmos statement said, adding that the spacecraft went into orbit “as planned.” Initially programmed for Thursday, … Read more